1. So tender, so precious,
My Savior to me,
So true and so gracious
I’ve found Him to be.

2. So patient, so kindly
Toward all my ways;
I blunder so often -
He love still repays.

3. Of all friends the fairest
And truest is He;
His love is the rarest
That ever can be.

4. His beauty, though bleeding
And circled with thorns,
Is then most exceeding,
For grief Him adorns.

Refrain:
How can I but love Him?
But love Him, but love Him?
There’s no friend above Him,
Poor sinner, for thee.